[email protected] (Shmuel Metz  , Seymour J.) writes:
> It didn't help that the MVS address space was painfully small compared
> to the VAX. It wasn't until MVS/ESA that IBM caught up.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia

during the Future System period ... 370 (hardware & software)
development was being killed off (and lack of new products
is credited with giving clone processors market foothold).
with death of FS ... there was mad rush to get products
back into the 370 pipeline ... misc. past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

part of that was 303x in parallel with 3081 & 370/xa. The head of POK
also managed to convince corporate to kill off the vm370 product,
shutdown the burlington mall development group and move all the people
to POK ... or otherwise he wouldn't be able to meet the mvs/xa ship
schedule.

the burlington mall group wasn't going to be told until the very last
moment in order to minimize people being able to escape ...  however it
leaked a few months early ... and quite a few people were able to escape
the move to POK ... quite a few going to DEC to work on vax/vms (this
was in the very early days of starting vax/vms development)
... resulting in the head of POK being considered one of the biggest
contributors to vax/vms.

endicott eventually managed to save the vm370 product mission ... but
had to reconsitute a development group from scratch ... the resulting
learning curve resulted in quite a few comments on VMSHARE during the
period.
http://vm.mairist.edu/~vmshare/

there was also quite a bit of enhancements to vm370 lost in the
burlington mall shutdown ... including a major expansion of MVS
emulation in cms.

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